Mayor Eric Adams said he had a “great” talk with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie about rolling back the state’s bail-reform law.
“I had a long conversation with the speaker of the Assembly, and we agreed to look over some of the data that the New York City Police Department is going to present on how we’re having too many repeated offenders on bail-eligible, non-bail-eligible crime,” Adams said.Adams added: “We’re gonna continue to be vociferous on this topic because New Yorkers, I believe, deserve better.
to amend the controversial 2019 bail-reform law and accused critics of spreading “misinformation” about its impact on crime to “make for good campaigns.” During a news conference at JFK Airport in Queens, Adams said the crime problem plaguing the Big Apple involved “more than” just bail reform because “our criminal justice system is off the rails.”
Mayor Eric Adams said he had a “great” conversation with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on the state’s bail reform law.Adams said Heastie agreed to review NYPD data for “repeated offenders on bail-eligible, non-bail-eligible crime.”“It includes what the prosecutors are doing, what our judges are doing, what the corporation counsels are doing, what [the Administration for Children’s Services] is doing,” he said.
“It’s the entire criminal justice system that we must look at and [if] we try to piecemeal and put a Band-Aid on a cancerous sore, we’re not going to heal the problem.”call for a special session of the state LegislatureThe suspect in the attack on an officer was released without bail days before the attack for a robbery.Michelle McKelley has been released without bail despite having 100 arrests for shoplifting.
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